WOTY closed the segment of CNN this morning. CNN did a cutesy thing and proprosed words they'd rather NOT see in 2003:
BAGHDADDY
IRAQABOO
KORHEA
PYONGYANXIETY
REMILITARIZED ZONE
WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
And one they'd like to see:
RAELITY
I didn't see this on the CNN web site just now, but look for it in a day or two.
IMHO, WOTY is a bit of whimsy, biased by a certain handful people who submit the words, by what happens late in the year, and, obviously, by the people who attend the meeting. I saw "weapons" as clearly better than "weapons of mass destruction." I don't know the procedures, but "weapons" (which would include "weapons inspection" and "biological weapons" as well as "weapons of mass destruction") received ZERO votes? And in a year marked by tragic "homicide bombings" or "suicide bombings," our list instead mentions "grid butt"?
I'm happy that journalists are interested in this bit of fluff. But I can't understand when the same journalists are approached by the work of a member such as me, and they don't even respond.
Ah, such is life. I leave it for others to respond to those eager journalists.